OFFTOPIC

When we made /bros/ the purpose of the section was simple: have a place where the people posting on the site could post bigger off-topic conversations (music, games, movies, whatever). After a very long time people finally started posting in there, keeping out circle-jerking out of the Chloë threads.

However what started happening was that the section became some sort of gathering place for circle-jerkers, because people apparently haven't discovered facebook yet. Not only that but you had people posting there who almost never posted in /chloe/ and it also became apparent some people came to the site only for the circlejerking which kind of defeats the purpose of why it was made in the first place.

I think some of you summarized it perfectly when they said (jokingly or not, it does not matter) that they "come for Chloë, stay for the CJ". I don't want people here to stay for the wrong reasons so I'm making it easy for some of you.

So with that in mind I'm announcing I will delete the /bros/ section next weekend (9-10 nov)

I'm giving you a heads up so you can share contact info (emails, twitter or facebook accounts, etc) and have time to enjoy it while it lasts.

Hoping to save you some time, let me address some of the most obvious questions that might arise:>Where should the circle jerkers go? 4chanIt's the place where we came from, it won't hurt to go back there from time to time. You have constant circle-jerking threads there, more people you could meet plus you could post stuff that might not be allowed here so it will be a pretty good fit for many of you>Do you realize you will be driving people away?If circle-jerking is what makes or breaks the presence of some of you here (and not the reason why this site was made for in the first place - aka Chloë)… then good riddance.

>What's stopping CJ from coming back to Chloë threads?We don't want to go back to the 'dark days' of the Chloë threads so mods will make sure to keep CJ out as will be as strict as they need to in order to do it>What do the other mods think about this?Some are indifferent while others oppose it, so this is entirely my decision.

>>4535One question: How many offtopic questions can I ask in the numbered thread, if it gets that way, before I get a ban? I'm thinking about 2 or 3, like what you do with Echo >fbor something like this

Just reposting this since i put in the effort of typing it previously.

RIP /bros/

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A couple of points just to offer my perspective even though i doubt it means anything to you.>This section was supposed to be a part of the site where people who posted Chloë could come in an discuss offtopic stuffNow it looks like it's a place where people come in to circle-jerk and occasionally they might remember this is a Chloë site and there is a section for that too

So is your primary problem not with how cj is functioning but with the fact that you feel we are posting more here then in /chloe/? That's what it sounds like from this quote. I came here for the chloe board (obviously) and even when i don't post in it (which i will get to in a minute) i constantly have it open and read every post.

It seems to me that it is natural to have that part of the site become slow in times of drought. When there are no new pictures of her to share and for everyone to hoard, when there is no news / interviews for everyone to gush over, when there is no new movie of hers to discuss, then there won't be much to say. With that (lovely) chlomo torrent you guys made available, the only pictures for people to share with each other are when new ones become available which while semi regular is not going to be constant. >Let me remind you folks that there are plenty of generalistic sites like 4chan, 4chon, facebook and countless others were you could post, because if you think this is some sort of circle-jerking social club I have bad news for you

You use the term "circle-jerking social club" a few times. So, it seems you want us to take our offtopic discussions to this board and leave them out of /chloe/ (good idea) but you don't want it to become a "social club" where the (few) people who use it do so regularly and therefore know each other. However, we didn't plan for it to become like this. No one decided that. It just so happened that because only a select few people used it the natural course of events was for them to get to know each other and sometimes the discussions go towards that - "how was your day / how is your relationship with x" etc. However, those things are offtopic and more importantly it leads to my next major point -

The key to this place (bros) that separates it from "generalistic" discussion sites is that we are all united by our love for chloe, EVEN WHEN WE AREN'T TALKING ABOUT HER. Everyone here has a special unique dynamic about them, we are all united in certain subtle ways in what kind of people we are etc, by the fact that we all share such a love for her. This is why it's fun talking to the other people in cj, because we met each other through chloe (this site specifically) and we are all a certain kind of person in a way that can't be defined because of that. It's not just random people being social about offtopic things. It's people who *love* chloe doing that. That makes it special. And that's why it's still chlomo.org>>And a question: If somebody starts offtopicing in /chloe/, and there's no /bros/, where you gonna send them? 4chan? yes, 4chan

So, you wanted to sort of "clean the site up" since you are convinced that chloe and her family are aware of it, but yet you want to constantly send people to 4chan when they drift off topic in the main board? Being quite familiar with that part of the internet you may have forgotten, but "normal" people do not visit websites like 4chan. If you were afraid of chloe or her family reading something disturbing on this site, can you imagine how they might feel if one of them found 4chan through the /chloe/ board? What they would think of this site after being linked there from here?

It also doesn't make sense to "send people to 4chan" when they start offtopicing in /chloe/, because when you send them here and they are doing it anyone can just provide a direct link to the current CJ thread and immediately continue whatever discussion was drifting off topic in that thread. If you "send them to 4chan" all you are doing is 100% guaranteeing the discussion will not continue because even if they are willing to use 4chan there isn't anywhere specific there for just (only) what happens here, for specifically chloe fans to cj.

Just my thoughts, hopefully you will read them. There is a small handful of people even using /bros/ currently and i just don't see the reason for lowering the entire site activity in times of drought (no news / new interviews / new photos / new chloe movie etc) even more.

First of all, I do agree that this site was made for Chloë and that it's not exactly ideal that people just come here to post on the circlejerking threads as if it's a friend-finder site that happens to have Chloë's all so wonderfully adorable face in it. Personally, I post a bit more in the Chloë board than in the bros board, and when I do post at bros, I actually find myself still posting about Chloë a lot. You can ask the other bros there, I'm on Chlocainë. With that being said, I assure you that this is not a selfish notion.

HOWEVER, going off topic can't be avoided. We'd like to get to know the new bros, get to know each other. We'd like to be, as was used a lot of times already, "united through Chloë". But with that, I keep in mind what you said and agree that this place should really be mostly about Chloë - not even 50% or 20% not about her - because that's what this is; a Chloë site.

What I am saying is not that I am opposing your decision to remove bros but that there should be a little area here where bros can still go off-topic. It's like a venting room in a call center, to put things into perspective.

So, I am proposing one general bros thread in site - not numbered threads though, but one bros thread. I volunteer to take the responsibility to make it, and make a new one as well as deleting the old (if I'm not mistaken, I can delete it like a normal post) one when I do so. If you agree to this and I should fail to do my responsibility, then you can disallow me from doing so in the future. Just please don't ban me from the Chloë board if that happens. I can't live without her!

I'm hoping for your kind consideration and that you really think about the feasibility of this. All we're asking for is an extra room (no matter how small) where we can off-topic once in a while, get to know each other more - but still be in Chlomo all the same.

But chlobros are cannot live by only one Chloё at all, they have other different interests and here is wonderful opportunity to unite its two components (imho). In any case I have to create arhive /bros.